This 1947 budget sheet for Black Narcissus shows exactly where the money went on Powell and Pressburger’s classic tale of nuns in the Himalayas.

In 1980, Lynch left behind the American heartland to make a film on British soil – his devastating story of The Elephant Man. We went looking for the hotspots of Lynchian London.

And all the major studios were at work integrating their businesses, so they could control their films from studio to cinema, a consolidation of power that set the conditions for the Golden Age of ...

Tina McFarling, our Head of Strategic Communications until July 2025, and David Thomas Gurney, our Film Laboratory Lead until summer 2025, are both made MBEs, while former BFI governor Idris Elba ...

These original cut-out creations for her film Cinderella reveal the painstaking craft behind Lotte Reiniger’s distinctive animation style.

Bardot became a global icon of post-war France. From her scandalous breakthrough in And God Created Woman and the ensuing Bardomania, her bold, brazen screen image embodied a new freedom and made her ...

Ahead of the latest in the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas strand airing on Christmas Eve, we revisit the atmospheric locations for the original series to see how time has changed them.

The BFI today announces that it is honouring filmmaker Guillermo del Toro with its highest accolade, a BFI Fellowship. The award recognises his extraordinary contribution to film and the distinctive ...

Edgar Wright’s faithful adaptation of Stephen King’s 1982 novel about a deadly cross-country chase TV gameshow is crammed with skilful action sequences, winking gags and a surprisingly topical strand ...

Be careful what you say; children will listen. That’s the well-trodden and evocative theme of Shih-Ching Tsou’s solo debut feature Left-Handed Girl – a contemporary drama which wears its fairytale ...

BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund seeks to improve understanding of diversity in the film production workforce Funding has been awarded to Creative Diversity Network and Design Otherwise ...

François Ozon’s The Stranger is a faithful adaptation of Albert Camus’s 1942 novella, yet with a subtle revisionist slant. Critical debate has long focused on the erasure of Algerian identity in Camus ...